as well jumping off the hand rails on either side of the outside arena onto the the people watching (who were standing on concrete) at one point the drummer was playing his drums whilst being hoisted aloft by members of the crowd.

but certainly hilarious mental behaviour was watching Eugene Hutz from Gogol Bordello at a little basement bar in Brighton. Snatched a freshly bought pint out of the hand of a girl in the front row. Downed half of it, poured the rest over his head, then proceeded to put an upturned fire bucket on his head and start hitting it for all it was worth with some drum sticks. Also seen him crowd surf attempting a handstand on top of the bass drum at a different gig.

but the weirdest was maybe this two man band where one guy put on a balaclava and laid down on the floor screaming into the mic which he had taped to his mouth while the other guy spooned him from behind and strangled him with a carrier bag. proper haircuts, proper tunes.

He had no idea what it was... it was only when people realised that a large space around it formed. Mudhoney dropped their guitars to retaliate against the mud throwers that day, that was amazing. Kurt was watching from the side of the stage in front of the speakers, no one dared throw anything at him!

saw them at Nation of Shopkeepers in Leeds, drummer had bin upended on his head, had his drum kit disassembled and passed out to the crowd as he was playing, lead singer in his pants up on a windowsill and the guitarist standing on the bar! Messy, chaotic, hilarious and brilliant!

dangling from a pipe on the ceiling of the Arches in Glasgow, above two confused members of venue staff with no idea of how to get him down. All whilst Jeffrey Lewis was trying, and ultimately failing, to walk around the stage in the huge BSP bear costume.

Australian band from the late 80s / early 90s. Had a song called Nude School, and often they'd all strip off completely as they played the song. They'd do other stuff like eating fire while performing.

One time I saw them, one of the band members ran around the crowd swinging about an operating chainsaw (pretty sure they'd taken the chain off, though).

Finished the set early, went off, came back on and did some pointless thing involving various props and wrapping tape around the stage set. Could have just played a couple more songs, especially galling as his actual set was amazing.

Then again, this was the only gig where I've heard a complaint for someone dancing too much. My mate dances like Ian Curtis if he couldn't go sideward, but it was still an indictment on how cunty Melbourne crowds can be.

Outside of those though, there's always other stupid noise ones. New Blockaders at The Dome (when they headlined the Never Say When festival) springs most obviously to mind. Or any Litter Shitter gig (there's prbably something on youtube).

Noise music is a great excuse to act like a dickhead under the guise of 'art'.

they were playing first on the smallest stage, so midday or thereabouts. They were clearly pissed as farts whereas the crowd definitely weren't and was very sparse indeed, the singer still jumped offstage and tried to engage the audience however. Noone was interested, he knocked the drink out of one lucky punter's hand and ripped down the top of some geeky looking flat chested girl exposing her breasts for all to see.

Sorry, not all that rock n roll really. Most gigs have been fairly uneventful.

Lead singer, Ron Yocom, was drinking copious amounts of JD all through the set. A couple of songs from the end of the set, he missed the front of the stage and fell off, flat on his face. He finished the gig, bloodied, but he must have hurt the next day.

I saw Bright Eyes where he filled in for Ryan Adams’ slot. It was a really weird crowd –people thinking they were seeing Ryan or even Bryan Adams and those expecting First Day of My Life type folk. Connor proceeded to only play Digital Ash, have a pop at the recently deceased John Peel and generally be so nasty to the audience nearly everyone left. Towards the end a naked woman came on stage, grabbed his hair and got off with him for a couple of minutes. He then apologised, played a couple of hits and trashed the entire place.

This was just after seeing Primal Scream who had the plugs pulled on them after Bobby ranted about the war on terror being a pretext for an international police state / called everyone complacent cattle / said that he hoped Kylie died in a helicopter / called basement jaxx c*cksuckers

DEP strike again: lead singer pooing onto a t-shirt then flinging the lot into the crowd (parting like the Red Sea)- the shirt got flung back and forth a few times (ick!) I think this stunt got DEP banned from the festival for life.